Profits and Questions at Online Charter Schools

December 12, 2011New York Times

“The growth of for-profit online schools, one of the more overtly commercial segments of the school choice movement, is rooted in the theory that corporate efficiencies combined with the Internet can revolutionize public education, offering high quality at reduced cost,” the article notes. But an analysis of one company’s operations “raises serious questions about whether [it] — and full-time online schools in general — benefit children or taxpayers, particularly as state education budgets are being slashed.”